Category: Bing SEO

Bing posted a new microsite or portal just for the two newish APIs that allow you to submit URLs for indexing to Bing and also to submit your content for indexing to Bing. The new portal is at bing.com/webmasters/url-submission-api.

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing said on Twitter “preferable to use a 302 redirect if your destination URL may change within 2 days, else 301 is recommended.” So if your redirects will be in place for less than two days, go with a 302 – otherwise, Bi…

Frederic Dubut from Bing said on Twitter that Bing has been very business working on algorithm changes. He said “the magnitude of the algorithm changes we made recently may be larger than usual.”

Jarno van Driel said he reached out to Bing via Bing Webmaster Tools support contact form and it turned out that Bing was blocking some of his “money pages” for some reason. He did nothing technically wrong and Bing fixed it on their end and now the pa…

Bing said on Twitter that Bing Webmaster Tools shows data for the normalized URL. So you do not need to verify all the variations. Bing said “Http, https, www., Non www, etc and the all the reports are for that normalized URL.” This is not how most m…

I was asked if there was a Bing Search algorithm and ranking update on February 1st. Truth is, I did not see any chatter about this in any of the channels I track. But some are saying they saw an update on February 1st and 7th. I asked Frédéric Dubut from Bing and he said Bing is always making changes.

Bing announced phase one of the new Bing Webmaster Tools last night at SMX West. I covered it at Search Engine Land in some detail but here are some more detailed screen shots, now that I have access to it.

Nagu Rangan, a Product Management at Microsoft working on Bing, said on stage at PubCon that the Bing Webmaster Tools team is working on a sitemap diagnosis tool. This is according to Purna Virji, who was in the audience and works for Microsoft Adverti…

As you know, BingBot is going evergreen and with that, it has announced it is updating its user agents to be dynamic based on the version of the browser it is using to crawl your web site.

Bing’s Frédéric Dubut said on Twitter that Bing does do proactive webmaster outreach. So if a site has a crawl issue that is negatively impacting search and the site, Bing may reach out via email.

Bing announced last night a new set of search penalties for inorganic site structure.iInorganic site structure includes PBNs and link networks, doorways and duplicate content, subdomain or subfolder leasing and spammy web hosts and hacked sites.
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Bing announced a pilot, a really early test, for a content submission API. The content submission API takes it a step further than Bing’s efforts to have you just submit URLs for crawling and indexing. Instead, this is you feeding Bing not just your UR…

Bing announced yesterday that BingBot is going evergreen, just like GoogleBot did. Bing said this will happen over the next few months and the user agent for BingBot might change but most sites don’t need to do anything or worry about anything with th…

With all this discussion around the changes to how Google treats the nofollow link attribute, Bing chimed in about how they treat it. Fabrice Canel from the Bing search team said on Twitter “we always treated the nofollow link attribute as a ‘hint’, m…

This seems weird at first site but Bing Webmaster Tools has a beta option to import your sites from Google Search Console. Yes, it seems the two search engines are working together to get more webmasters to verify their web sites in Bing Webmaster Too…

Bing announced yesterday that it is now supporting Domain Connect, a third-party service, to make the process of site verification within Bing Webmaster Tools faster and easier. Instead of XML file authentication, or meta tag authentication or CNAME a…

Bing’s spam fighter, Frédéric Dubut, said on Twitter “I haven’t seen any case where a change in rankings would be provably attributable to negative SEO only.” We know Google has mostly said that negative SEO doesn’t really work with Google, although they have been a bit wishy-washy on that. Here is Bing kind of saying the same thing.

Bing is going to be updating the Bing Webmaster Guidelines and as part of that process, Frédéric Dubut from the Bing spam team asked what “shady tactics you think are not penalized enough?” In general, he is taking feedback on the current document before he begins.

Frédéric Dubut from Bing said that its search engine never supported the noindex in a robots.txt file before. So nothing is going to be changing with Bing on that front. While we heard Google did unofficially support it and will stop supporting it on September 1st.

Bing announced yesterday that you can now batch submit up to 500 URLs per API request, so do 500 URLs in a single API request – instead of an API request per URL. The 10,000 URL limit per day still applies but now you can submit more URLs in a single …